Software Update: VS.PHP 1.1.0.1740

Visual Studio .NET 2002 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 can be used to develop in a number of different languages. However, there is no support for the scripting language PHP by default. Since several developers find the Visual Studio .NET interface very useful, they have developed VS.PHP here. This is an add-on for Visual Studio .NET that allows editing, execution, and debugging of PHP files. Jcx.Software has released a new version of VS.PHP with the version number 1.1.0.1740. The release notes and the changelog look like this:

VS.Php 1.1 is a feature release update that adds support for Visual Studio class browser. This release also improves the Php debugger, editor tooltips, code outlining and Php5 support.

Changes:

• Class viewer and object browser
• User refereces – Enables you to add any arbitrary file to the refereces folder so it gets included in intellisense.
• Edit value of variables during debug
• Improved support for defines including tooltips and goto definition
• Improved tooltip for variables including in debug mode
• Add metadata to help intellisense. If you type //# type $a MyClass will set $a to type MyClass. This is useful when VS.Php can’t pick up the type of a variable from parsing the code (EG assign $a to the return value of a function).
• Customization of php.ini and httpd.conf for each project when using built-in preview engine.
• Improved support for extended characters
• Fix issues with coloring html comments
• Add intellisense support for extend. Show the list of classes you can inherit from.
• Show access modifiers (public, private) in navigation bar
• Improved outlining and bracket matching
• Allow keywords like exit as method names
• Redesign the deployment configuration dialog
• Support for custom task items like HACK and UNDONE. You can configure those in the Visual Studio options dialog.
• Fix bus 288, 294, 297, 310, 321, 317, 229, 332, 341 and many more
• Upgrade built-in engine to Php 4.3.10 and DBG to 2.11.32

[break]VS.PHP is available in two flavors:
Visual Studio .NET 2002
Visual Studio .NET 2003